Pentagon’s Bureaucratic Waste Ensures US Loses Ground to China: Former Chief Software Officer

News Analysis Bureaucracy and waste are hamstringing U.S. military development and adversely affecting the nation’s military readiness, according to the former chief software officer of the Air Force. That means the United States is less prepared for a potential conflict with China. “Any bureaucracy which slows down outcomes for the sake of bureaucracy is going to ensure we get behind China,” said Nicolas Chaillan, the Air Force’s first chief software officer, who resigne...